‘The Nine Angles’ is a story of gentrification and how it affects the most vulnerable members of our community. The novel follows two protagonists experiencing homelessness in the Peel Region, a newcomer and a long-term rough sleeper. ‘The Nine Angles’ uses magical realism and the supernatural to focus on a category of people rarely centred in Australian fiction – a demographic that is growing before our eyes in the deepening housing crisis. A series of sculptural tourist attractions are built in parks and nature reserves commonly used by rough sleepers in Mandurah. A young adult, Martin Tuckey, becomes homeless after fleeing family violence. Martin meets an older man, Daniel Zwicky, who has been living in his car for over a year and who mentors Martin on survival while sleeping rough. Martin claims to have witnessed one of the new tourist attraction sculptures coming to life at night and suspects this is linked to a series of deaths in the Mandurah community of rough sleepers. As the novel progresses, Martin and Daniel discover connections between the sculptures, a local property developer with links to a prominent crime family, and a Satanic cult whose symbol is a sigil composed of nine angled lines.